Maduro accuses the US of “pressuring” the region to change the electoral result in Venezuela

The Nicolás Maduro regime accused the United States of “pressuring governments in the region” to “promote a change” in the result of the July 28 presidential elections in Venezuela, after the State Department reported that it has “close contact” with Brazil, Mexico and Colombia to “find a way forward” following his questioned proclamation as president.

“Washington is trying to pressure governments in the region to promote a change in the election results based on information constructed by CIA agents and magnates of corporate communications and social media monopolies,” the Venezuelan regime said in a statement published on X by its foreign minister, Yván Gil.

For Maduro’s Foreign Minister, these statements make it “evident” that the United States “is at the forefront of the attempted coup d’état” and “ignores the democratic will of the Venezuelan people who re-elected Nicolás Maduro.”

He also accused Washington of trying to “impose” a “new puppet government, in the image and likeness of its failed 2019 strategy,” referring to Juan Guaidó, who declared himself “interim president” of Venezuela, which had the support of the White House.

In this regard, the Administration of President Joe Biden clarified that, although it recognized Edmundo González Urrutia as the winner of the elections, it still does not recognize him as president of Venezuela, and asked the government and the opposition to negotiate a democratic transition.

On the other hand, the presidents of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, were more cautious and requested the National Council (CNE), in a joint statement, to publish the voting records and to verify the results.

On Monday, Maduro’s electoral body handed over the vote counting records to the ruling party’s Supreme Court of Justice (TSJ) for a review of the results, which declared the Chavista leader the winner.

The CNE has not published the minutes certifying Maduro’s reelection, as required by law, while the Democratic Unitary Platform published “81%” of the ballots, which show, according to the opposition, that González Urrutia won by a wide margin, causing the Venezuelan people to go out and protest in all of Venezuela’s states and which have left 13 people dead and more than 2,000 arbitrarily arrested.

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